13 Legends of Lake Norman learned way more about California than they ever wanted to at a pool workout at Croc's house. And 1 office intern showed up just for the beer. Here's their story bruh…
YHC rolled up early and got to hang with Freedom, Jaws, and Rodeo for a while. It was awesome cause I hadn't seen those guys in a while.
7:14pm the Standard guys coming back from the run…WTF is Camelback doing with them?! You are now a runner, sir.
Apparently some of the guys were on California surfer time, cause we didn't get going until 7:17ish.
Warmarama
California is warm so we don't need no warm up.
The Thang
Run ~1/2 mile to the new greenway bridge, which looks remarkably similar to Golden Gate Bridge.
What's the state mammal? Grizzly Bear. I think someone actually said Eagle.
- Bear crawl across the Golden Gate Bridge.
- At the other end we did California Dry Dock. That's like a Carolina Dry Dock except you just say "Dude" instead of the rep count.
- After God knows how many "Dude's", Bear crawl back across the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Another set of California Dry Docks. Many "Dude's"
Now that everybody saw what a hot pile of garbage Northern California is, we did the ~1/2 mile run back to beautiful Southern California (Croc's House).
Where's the highest point in the contiguous US? That's right, California (Mt. McKinley).
- 10X IC Mountain Climbers
Where's the lowest point in the continguous US? Uh, gee, could it be California? (Death Valley)
- Jump in the pool and touch the bottom.
What year did California first acheive independence from a European Nation? 1821 Mexican Independance from Spain. Yes, California was first claimed by Spain and subsequently became part of Mexico.
- 18X Burpees
- Jump in the pool
- 21X Rosalita (10.5X IC)
What year did California become part of the good ole USA? 1848 as a result of the Mexican-American War.
- 18X Bonnie Blairs
- Jump in the pool
- 48X Merkins (split into 2 sets of 12X IC)
Californians stinkin' love yoga. Mobility Moment Time!
When did California become a state? 1850. The US government heard something about gold found in California (ever hear of the 49ers?) so they thought it'd be good to get a piece of that through taxes. Compare that to Arizona who had to wait another 62 years for statehood. Sand ain't as good as gold I guess. Suck it, Arizona.
- 18X Burpees
- Jump in the pool
- 50X Jump Squats (split into 2 sets of 25X OYO)
Time to go to Muscle Beach. Grab a Block! 10X IC each (about) of curls, skull crushers, 8 count body builders, shoulder press, standing chest press (baby throwers), and more merkins.
Circle up for Mary. I don't remember much about this except there were glute bridges (you get nothing for guessing who called it) and Crocs almost drowned trying to do these exercises in the pool.
Blocks back RECOVER RECOVER.
Moleskin
- People don't like doing mountain climbers and burpees shoeless. Whelp, that's California for you.
- California eclectic music playlist included Weezer, Rage Against the Machine, No Doubt, and much more.
- Crocs bought pizza, YHC brought a mushy nearly inedible watermelon. You're welcome.
- This workout was hard. All PAX crushed it.
- Hadn't seen Something in a while, but he was there. So that's Something.
- Camelback resisted many calls for him to jump in the pool clothes-on. Bring your suit bro, you deserve to cool off after all that running.
- Pit Stop got a trivia question right. No prizes were awarded.
- CB freaking killed it. Up to you to figure out which of the 3 CBs I'm talking about. Or is it all of them?
- Enron showed up after the workout in khakis and untucked polo. Someone said it looked like the office intern had arrived. Chuckles ensued.
- Awesome 2nd F time after this not-so-easy 1st F. Thank you Crocs for opening up your backyard and pool, providing some food, and just being a good dude.
- I like California, but we moved here for a reason. Charlotte Metro > SoCal
- Thank you for the opportunity to lead. Love you all my dudes!